The change became evident in Saints Row 2 as players took on more and more absurd missions. Although it didn’t garner the praise that its rival did, in many ways Saints Row 2 was the more enjoyable game. The over-the-top missions and ludicrous plot oozed the sort of fun that fans seek from these sort of games.

In Saints Row: The Third, Volition takes the hint and they’ve decided to disregard all sense of decency and decorum. If there was an absurd-o-meter measuring all the wacky, risque and excessive elements in the game, it’d be broken. The needle would be busting out of the device and touching it would probably shock you. When players can walk around the new locale of Steelport and start beating random people with a purple sex toy, then your title pretty much owns this niche of the gaming world.